Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life SCOTT CENTER

Spirituality and Social Justice: A Multifaith Panel Discussion Honoring The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please join us for a discussion with a multi-faith group of panelists to reflect on the question “what do wisdom traditions offer us in navigating the challenges of oppression and injustice in these challenging times”? We’ll discuss the religious, secular, and spiritual foundations of civic actions for social justice.

Panelists: 
Rev. Barnaby Feder (Unitarian Universalist)
Fr. Luke Austin (Christian)
Sensei Joshin Byrnes (Buddhist)
Rabbi Danielle Stillman (Jewish)
Chaplain Saifa Hussain(Muslim) 

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Open to the Public

Lessons & Carols for Advent and Christmas

The Scott Center for Spiritual & Religious Life and the Music Department present our annual Christmas service with traditional hymns and anthems sung by the Middlebury College Choir, and Biblical readings of the season by faculty, staff and students.

YouTube premier on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 4:00 pm. Tune in at go/lessonsandcarols, or go.middlebury.edu/lessonsandcarols. The program will be available to view online anytime throughout Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 7.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public

Wednesday Wisdom For These Days

Wednesday Wisdom For These Days from noon to 12:30 p.m. every week. Join Spiritual and Religious Life dean, Mark R. Orten, for a half-hour of quiet contemplation with reading and music for our times. Intentional silence and guided meditation will be interspersed with music and readings from secular worldviews and sacred traditions to open our awareness and to find strength and perspective for living during pandemical, political, racial, ecological and other upheavals.

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